What about a goal that isn’t competitive, such as “get grade 8 on the ABRSM music exam for <instrument>”? Plenty of Asian parents have that particular goal and yet they usually ask/force their children to practice daily. Is this irrational, or is it good at achieving this goal? Would we be able to improve efficiency by using spaced repetition in this scenario as opposed to daily practice?
The ABRSM is in X days. It too does not care how efficient you were time-wise in getting to grade-8 competency. There are no bonus points for sample-efficiency.
(And of course, it’s not like Asian parents are doing their kids much good in the first place with that music stuff, so there’s even less of an issue there.)
What about a goal that isn’t competitive, such as “get grade 8 on the ABRSM music exam for <instrument>”? Plenty of Asian parents have that particular goal and yet they usually ask/force their children to practice daily. Is this irrational, or is it good at achieving this goal? Would we be able to improve efficiency by using spaced repetition in this scenario as opposed to daily practice?
The ABRSM is in X days. It too does not care how efficient you were time-wise in getting to grade-8 competency. There are no bonus points for sample-efficiency.
(And of course, it’s not like Asian parents are doing their kids much good in the first place with that music stuff, so there’s even less of an issue there.)